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Catalogue of the Australian social wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, U. S. A.
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, GPO Box 4646, Darwin, NT 0801, Australia. 3Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water, Private Mail Bag 44, Winnellie, NT 0822, Australia. 4University Fellow, Research Institute for Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT 0909, Australia.
Hymenoptera Paper wasps yellowjackets distribution Polistes Ropalidia Vespula

Abstract

A catalogue of the social wasps occurring in Australia is presented. New synonymies include Vespa cohabitatrix Curtiss, 1938 (= Polistes olivaceus (DeGeer, 1773)) and Vespula vulgaris vetus Eck, 1999 (= Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus, 1758)).

 

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